Table A3.
Relationships between socio-economic factors and method of domestic waste disposal.
| Variable | Method of Domestic Waste Disposal a, b | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collected by Local Authority/ Management Regularly |
Collected by Local Authority/ Management Irregularly |
Buried Outside the House | Open Burning | Thrown into the Drain, River or Sea or Anywhere | Collected and Thrown in Specialized Area for Recycling | |||||||
| Count | % | Count | % | Count | % | Count | % | Count | % | Count | % | |
| Overall | 4847 | 60.8 | 392 | 4.9 | 79 | 1.0 | 2080 | 26.1 | 102 | 1.3 | 367 | 4.6 |
| Education level # | ||||||||||||
| No formal | 203 | 34.7 | 37 | 6.3 | 15 | 2.6 | 269 | 46.0 | 28 | 4.8 | 21 | 3.6 |
| Primary | 1087 | 46.7 | 130 | 5.6 | 32 | 1.4 | 876 | 37.7 | 52 | 2.2 | 118 | 5.1 |
| Secondary | 2176 | 64.6 | 149 | 4.4 | 28 | 0.8 | 790 | 23.4 | 18 | 0.5 | 165 | 4.9 |
| Tertiary | 1340 | 82.9 | 68 | 4.2 | 3 | 0.2 | 128 | 7.9 | 2 | 0.1 | 59 | 3.6 |
| Unclassified | 37 | 57.8 | 7 | 10.9 | 1 | 1.6 | 13 | 20.3 | 1 | 1.6 | 3 | 4.7 |
| Missing | 4 | 26.7 | 1 | 6.7 | 0 | 0.0 | 4 | 26.7 | 1 | 6.7 | 1 | 6.7 |
| HH income quintile | ||||||||||||
| Q1 | 670 | 43.9 | 77 | 5.0 | 23 | 1.5 | 619 | 40.5 | 42 | 2.8 | 64 | 4.2 |
| Q2 | 835 | 49.3 | 92 | 5.4 | 21 | 1.2 | 602 | 35.5 | 35 | 2.1 | 90 | 5.3 |
| Q3 | 1039 | 60.8 | 96 | 5.6 | 17 | 1.0 | 430 | 25.1 | 16 | 0.9 | 87 | 5.1 |
| Q4 | 1025 | 70.0 | 65 | 4.4 | 13 | 0.9 | 273 | 18.6 | 5 | 0.3 | 63 | 4.3 |
| Q5 | 1278 | 80.7 | 62 | 3.9 | 5 | 0.3 | 156 | 9.9 | 4 | 0.3 | 63 | 4.0 |
| Strata | ||||||||||||
| Urban | 3709 | 79.7 | 248 | 5.3 | 20 | 0.4 | 436 | 9.4 | 23 | 0.5 | 156 | 3.4 |
| Rural | 1138 | 34.2 | 144 | 4.3 | 59 | 1.8 | 1644 | 49.5 | 79 | 2.4 | 211 | 6.3 |
| House Types # | ||||||||||||
| Single house | 936 | 38.6 | 126 | 5.2 | 40 | 1.6 | 1088 | 44.9 | 23 | 0.9 | 182 | 7.5 |
| Semi-D | 257 | 78.6 | 15 | 4.6 | 2 | 0.6 | 34 | 10.4 | 8 | 2.4 | 10 | 3.1 |
| Condo/Apartment | 413 | 94.1 | 10 | 2.3 | 1 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 15 | 3.4 |
| Terrace 1-storey | 1424 | 93.3 | 55 | 3.6 | 2 | 0.1 | 12 | 0.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 29 | 1.9 |
| Terrace 2-storey | 904 | 97.3 | 17 | 1.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.1 | 3 | 0.3 |
| Long house | 22 | 38.6 | 1 | 1.8 | 1 | 1.8 | 11 | 19.3 | 20 | 35.1 | 1 | 1.8 |
| Flat | 415 | 80.7 | 72 | 14.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 24 | 4.7 |
| Squatters | 21 | 35.6 | 6 | 10.2 | 1 | 1.7 | 8 | 13.6 | 13 | 22.0 | 6 | 10.2 |
| Village house | 338 | 23.9 | 54 | 3.8 | 21 | 1.5 | 874 | 61.9 | 32 | 2.3 | 77 | 5.5 |
| Shop house | 75 | 63.0 | 23 | 19.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 17 | 14.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 2.5 |
| Shared house | 41 | 32.8 | 13 | 10.4 | 11 | 8.8 | 33 | 26.4 | 5 | 4.0 | 17 | 13.6 |
| Missing | 1 | 2.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
a Not including “missing”, “don’t know”, “refuse to answer” and “not applicable” Some cells have counts less than 30; the results should be interpreted with caution. b Not including other group for method of domestic waste disposal (0.8%) due to no specific definition.